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Reminds me of Vietnamese and its use of diacritics to mark tones. Vietnamese also uses diacritical markings to differentiate some vowels. https://en.wikipedia.
by kjellsbells 2y ago
Reminds me of Vietnamese and its use of diacritics to mark tones. Vietnamese also uses diacritical markings to differentiate some vowels.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#Tone?wprov=sfla1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamese_phonology#Tone?wpro...
- dhosek 2y agoThere is speculation that the polytonic accents in Greek (which were a late addition to the alphabet, incidentally), originally were tone markers. ΄ represented a rising tone, ` a falling tone and ῀ a rising then falling tone.